[June 03, 2014]WARSAW (Reuters) - President Barack
Obama on Tuesday defended his administration's operation to rescue Army
Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl from Taliban captivity, saying the United States
was committed to freeing its prisoners of war regardless of how they
were captured.

Obama acknowledged that the Taliban fighters who were freed from
the U.S. prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in exchange for Bergdahl
could engage in efforts that were detrimental to U.S. security
again. He said he was confident the United States could go after
those individuals if that were the case.

Bergdahl had not met with his family yet and was not being
interrogated, Obama said.

(This story was refiled to amend dateline; also adds dropped word
'defended' in lead)

(Reporting by Jeff Mason and Roberta Rampton; Editing by John
Stonestreet)